Lead Control Management Officer

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About this role:

Wells Fargo is seeking a Lead Control Management Officer to support our Financial Crimes Operations utility (FCO) group. This position, sitting within the Chief Operating Office's Control Management group, will partner with executive management to define and deliver initiatives and programs across front lines and build relationships with a wide variety of senior leaders and enterprise partners across all business groups to help develop and maintain a strong control environment leading to the early identification and sustainable mitigation of risk.

In this role, you will:

• Engage with stakeholders, at various levels, across Wells Fargo to monitor, challenge, and manage issues throughout Wells Fargo’s issue management lifecycle

• Act as an advisor to leaders in developing risk mitigation strategies for complex and highly integrated business specific risk across different business lines

• Monitor, measure, evaluate, and report impact of decisions and business controls to the relevant business group and enterprise function

• Lead the strategy and resolution of highly complex current and emerging risks and issues requiring in depth evaluation across multiple areas or the enterprise, as well as an in-depth understanding of financial crimes, operational risk, audit, legal, and business process management

• Provide vision, direction, and expertise to leaders on implementing innovative and significant business solutions for highly complex risks associated with business operations

• Engage with all levels of roles across the business groups, and serve as an experienced advisor in designing and implementing risk mitigation strategies, business processes, and controls that mitigate risks and address regulatory
  requirements

• Support Control Management leadership in ensuring effective front line risk identification, measurement, monitoring, controls and mitigation, with a focus on business initiatives and testing

• Promote/design and enhance existing controls in partnership with business owners and process engineers, including effectiveness measures, implementation support, validation of effectiveness post-implementation and controls evaluation based on defined triggers

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of Risk Management or Control Management experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with and knowledge of BSA/AML requirements for financial institutions (e.g., CIP, due diligence (including Beneficial Ownership requirements), Currency Transaction Reporting/Monetary Instrument Recordkeeping, transaction monitoring, PEPs) and other AML-related topic (e.g., adverse media screening, sanctions)

• Financial Crimes certification (ACAMS)

• Strong knowledge of issues management lifecycle (capture, plan, mitigate and monitor, sustainability, and validation)

• Risk and Control Self- Assessment (RCSA) and Issue Management experience

• Experience in supporting one or more areas of risk including, Operational Risk, Technology or Compliance roles aligned to these groups

• Experience in designing, monitoring and/or remediation of operations and technology controls

• Experience in developing and/or monitoring key risk indicators

• A thorough understanding of enterprise risk management framework including risk identification, risk appetite and strategy, risk-related decisions, processes and controls, risk analytics and governance

• Strong interpersonal, influencing, and communications skills with an ability to interact effectively with stakeholders

• Proven leadership and project management skills to drive alignment across stakeholder groups to develop and deliver repeatable end-to-end risk